Re: Anonymous record type and inner types. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Anonymous record type and inner types.
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Msg-id 201107010636.27301.adrian.klaver@gmail.com
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In response to Anonymous record type and inner types.  (Ronan Dunklau <rdunklau@gmail.com>)
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On Friday, July 01, 2011 1:37:44 am Ronan Dunklau wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Sorry if this question has already been asked, but I couldn't find the
> answer anywhere.
>
> When I execute a statement such as "Select (an_int, a_varchar) as a_record
> from test, the type returned for a_record is "record" (oid 2249).
>
> Is the "inner type" information propagated somehow (that an_int is an
> integer, and a_varchar a varchar) ?

See below for complete information:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/sql-expressions.html#SQL-SYNTAX-
ROW-CONSTRUCTORS

>
> If so, is it easily accessible in client libraries ? I'm using psycopg2 for
> python, which itself uses libpq.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Ronan Dunklau

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